Britain Admits 'Ruth Should Not Have Been Executed'

The last woman to be executed in Britain, who gunned down her abusive lover outside a London pub more than 70 years ago, will be conditionally pardoned, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said Wednesday. Ruth Ellis, a 28-year-old single mother and nightclub ho…

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